The cycle of the seasons fascinated 17th-century europeans, but the shifts in the tilt of the earth that causes them were not understood. Winter was especially hard then; europe was in the middle of a little ice age and it was much colder than today. The southern netherlands was also in the midst of a war, and ill-paid soldiers terrorized the peasants. Here, the landscapist de momper uses subdued color and tonal unity to suggest the bleakness of a late winter afternoon, complemented by an intricate, stark pattern of barren branches against the sky. Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: between 1620 and 1629 (Baroque). Place of creation: Antwerp, Belgium. Dimensions: height: 44.7 cm (17.5 in); width: 66 cm (25.9 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Joos de Momper the younger - Winter Landscape - Walters 37363
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